gmonkey42

That would be the seals. I did another Reef Check dive today, surveying for fish this time. I lost count of how many seals we saw. One kept following us and rubbing its head on my fins. And it put its little clawed flipper on my leg. Aww! Seals are so funny. They're like cats. Another team said a seal kept messing with them and then sitting on the bottom and acting all innocent when they turned around.

It was a pretty fun, easy couple of dives. We saw the usual fish, nothing special to report there. My buddy saw a sheephead but I missed it. It's hard to find a photo that does it justice. It's a very big, silly looking fish. We had plenty of air left after the first dive, which was really in the better location (by Hopkins marine station) but my buddy wanted to head back to the boat. So on the second dive, we stayed and looked around a bit after we'd finished collecting the data but the visibility wasn't as good there (by McAbee beach).